Podcasting as a new historical medium

1. HEARING
HISTORY
P O D C A S T I N G A S A N E W M E D I U M

2. PODCASTING HISTORY
Why Use and/or Create Podcasts?
• Podcasts can deliver content for listening on
a mobile device, freeing the educator and
learner from the constraints of place.
• Allows for multiple voices and bringing
humanities alive through sound.
• Give present-day relevance to course
material.
• Allows for a more sensory experience with
material.
• Historians can create podcasts as alternative
forms of intellectual expression beyond
writing texts.
• Creating podcasts forces us to think of issues
of presentation, narrative, audience, and
knowledge for the “theater of the mind.”

3. HISTORY AND MEMORY
THE LONG SHADOW OF THE PLANTATION
HOW A WEIGHTED PAST CREATES A COMPLICATED
PRESENT

4. THEATER OF THE MIND
Analysis, Parapraxis,
Elvis

5. HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS
Puerto Rico

6. STORYTELLING
The Reddest of the
Blacks

7. WHAT CAN PODCASTS TEACH US?
• Storytelling
• Authenticity and
vulnerability
• Experimentation
• Simplicity
• Relevance